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Pledged to neither Sect nor Party,
But Established for the Benefit of All.
TUESDAY, OUT. 17, 1803.
But, after all, tho solution of tho
problom thrust upon tho country by
a "f rosh"uaval oillcor doos not dopoutl
upon tho wish or will of tho Hawai
ians. It is wholly for us to dotor
luino, not riioroly if it bo advant
ageous for us to annus tho islands,
but if it bo right, it would bo
rathor an awkward procodont to os-
vuunsn 10 navo ino country lay
bauds on any community whoroiu a
Minister liko Stevens took a fancy
to set up "provisional governments"
with tho aid of American warships.
--Illustrated A mericmi.
Tho foregoing paragraph is gooil
"American" piovondor for tho Ad
ertisor animal to ruminate upon.
Whenever you find the Adortisor
making a great uoiso over a word,
you may bo sure it is to cover up
grofas violations of good principles.
This is certainly tho case with that
paper's ringing of tho changes on
what it calls "American." To apply
that word to anything at tho bottom
of tho January filibustering move
ment is to profane tho Declaration
of Indopondouco and bolio tho Con
stitution of tho United States. There
is nothing American about tho an
nexation conspiracy, barring tho
bare name of its being a tevolt
against constituted authority. Tho
American revolt was to gain a na
tion's independence, while tho Ho
nolulu riot was iutoudod to destroy
a nation's independence.
PUTTING LEGS TO LIES.
Although an old proverb says a
lie has no logs, tho Advertiser doos
not believe it. In a long article)
full of dodgiugs of tho main issues,
that paper protends to reply to our
remarks on the now public printing
scheme of the Government. Our
contemporary's dofeuso against tho
chargo of boodliug is prolifio of mis
statements and misleading insinua
tions. It assumes that this paper had
a monopoly of Government patron
age under the various administra
tions that succeeded Mr. Thurs
ton's. This is very far from the
truth. The Advertiser had a very
liberal shaie of Govornuumt achor
tisiug, including nearly tho whole of
that from tho Finance Department
much of which was what printers
call "fat" oven while a director of
the Bulletin Publishing Company
was the Minister. When our con
temporary refers to the National
.Reform party it ought to bo very
respectful, in view of tho little
coquetry practiced by itself toward
the Mechanics' Union -tho foreign
wing of that party- -at tho opening
of the campaign of 1892. (Us de
vout ally tho Friend was not above
curling its bangs and powdering its
face to catch that particular beau
at the same time.)
When our amiable contemporary
biauds anything as a lie again, it
should (irst brush up its memory
and ascertain if there is any evidence
extaut on the subject of branding.
It happens that tho Minister of Fi
nance a few mouths ago submitted
a statement of outstanding accounts
to the Councils. In that statement
it was shown that several thousand
dollars was coming to the Gazette
Publishing Company. How many
hundrods or thousauds had already'
been drawn in the mouths that the
Provisional Government were taking
Advertiser space by several columns
sometimes at once, neither the
Councils nor the public have been,
or probably will be, informed. One
thousaud of the amount outstand
ing at tho time in question was for
work got by tender, but there was
.still over two thousand duo tho Ga
zette company on miscellaneous ac
count. This paper knows nothing of a
time "when a notice was posted in
the Interior Office ordering that ad
vertisiug was not to be given tho
Advertiser without tho special order
of tho head of that department."
It does know, however, that an order
was given to stop all Interior Ollico
advertising from coming to the
Bulletin since tho P. G. came into
power. Wo are not complaining a
bit, but consider that tho AdvortUor
has a brass cheek to complain of
Himilar treatment when tho Into Mr.
Spencer was Minister, Tho way that
paper slandered and hounded that
gentleman, personally, and libeled
his publio actions without rhymo or
reason in tho news columns as well
as in tho editorial formed one of
the most disreputable exhibitions of
journalism ovur made in this or any
other country. Both tho oditor aud
the uowsgathoiors of tho Advertiser
took every opportunity of discredit
ing tho moans adopted by Mr.
Spencer to deopen tho entranco to
tho harbor, which proved successful
hi spito of nil tho maligiianl obstruc
tion of tho clique represented by
the Advertiser with tin assistance of
a fuction to which thoy protended
to bo deudly opposod -but that
crowd would joiu hands with ApoJ.
lyou, as Mr. Thurston declared pub
lioly ono timo, to gain political ad
vantage. Yot now tho Advortisor
whines because tho Minister it gross
ly and unwarrantably abused, rof used
to subsidiso itl
"Tho Advertiser and tho Hawai
ian Gnzotto Company managod to
got along without government aid
undor tho mouarchy," says tho Ad
vortisor. A moro deliberate false
hood was never put into print.
From July 1, 1887, to nearly July 1,
18!0, the Advortisor and Gazotto
newspaper aud printing branches
had almost a complete monopoly of
all tho Government patronage m
those lines. Its owners had a repre
sentative in the Itofortn Legislature,
whoso first act was to secure the
passago of a motion to have every
bill, however simplo or silly, printed
on its introduction. In tho previous
uuregonorato days, when tho "pull"
for printing was in other hands, it
was tho practice to have only bills
of some complexity or cousidorablo
importance printed. Yet in thoso
more olden times tho Legislature
did not give tho Supremo Court ouo
tonth of tho fun of bowling over un
constitutional acts and parts of acts
as lesulted from tho amatour legis
lation of 1887 and 1888. There was
no competition in legislate o or oxo
uutiio printing, excepting undor the
law compelling a call for tendors for
any public service to cost JoOO or
over, until tho National Reform
Cabinet took ofiioo in 18'JO. Legis
lative punting was then givon over
to competition and tho Hawaiian
Gazette Company, with a view to
getting tho monopoly with its largo
aggregate of small profits, put in a
bid sit exactly one-half of tho price
it had boon getting from its virtual
monopoly without competition un
der the Reform regime. From that
time on, "undor tho monarchy," it is
equally false that tho Gazotto con
cern 'managed to got along without
government aid." On the contrary,
it is safe to say that tho Gazette
corpoiatiou raked in many more
times the amount of money from the
treasury than any other printing
and publishing house in the coun
try. We are ready to appeal to the
public accounts for proof. That
concern, it must bo remembered all
tho while, has had from far back in
the monarchy a monopoly of the
patronage of the judiciary depart
ment. Here is a characteristic piece of
boasting from this morning's scream
in the Advertiser: "The Advertiser
has a gouoral bid for government
advertising, and whon its services
are needed tho government becomes
its patron. Our prices are fixed, and
special bids have never been made
to cut under other newspapers."
Tho last sentence is proved false by
a recent instance the publication
of tho financial returns for the quar
ter ending June .'30. In that instance
tho throe daily papers wore asked to
mako bids. Tho Advertiser's bid
was tho highest, tho Bulletin's the
lowest, while tho Star's came in be
tweou. Learning that the Star was
below it, tho Advortisor put in a
second bid, which "cut under" the
Star, aud it received tho job at a
price away abovo that of tho Bulle
tin. As to its "general bid for gov
ernment advertising," the Advertiser
refers to a price it put on advertise
ments givon by a Government that it
opposod. This paper gave an instance
last year in which tho Gazotto com
pany charged twice as much as the
Bl'llkun for a government notice in
tho Advertiser, and tho same for its
insertion in the Hawaiian weekly
Kuokoa, which was acquired by it
solely as a tentacle to grasp so
much moro public money. What
we maintain is that the -Advertiser is
drawing for each of its, from one to
three columus a day of "By Author
ity" advertising from five to ten
times as much as it realizes from any
single column of commercial adver
tising in its pages. This statement
the Advortisor is challenged to dis
prove. While tho Bulletin had the
gonoral patrouage of the Govern
ment, it charged for official adver
tising tho same rato as woro charged
the commercial community. This,
too, notwithstanding that tho "By
Authority" column was givon tho
most conspicuous position in tho
paper, while the Advortisor puts
government notices on tho back of
a detached supplement. Those facts
convict the Advertiser's owners of
boodling, pure aud simple, aud the
Government that permits the extor
tion is in tho position of an accom
plice in tho boodling.
Tho Advortisor drops into the
mystic as usual whon it attempts to
make a counter. Its roferonco to
"tho instauco where 'the publication
of the laws was givon out to tho
lowest bidder under tho monarchy"
is in the first place an ontiro miscon
struction of what wo said. We
spoko of tho practice in gonoral, not
of an individual instance. There is
no instance of "gross favoritism,"
howevor, in our oxporionco, At last
session of tho Legislature, tho Bulle
tin Publishing Company put in
tenders for both the publication aud
tho printing, under the impression
that tho Government would recoil o
tho bids from ono concern at their
total amount as comparod with any
two corresponding bids. Considering
that tho insortion of tho laws would
not bo without valuo in promoting
salos of tho papor, tho Bulletin's
bid for this branch of tho service
was put in at tho baro cost of typo
sottiug. Tho total of its two bids
was lower than any other two bids,
and it would havo boon ocouomy to
treat them as ono tondor as oxpoct
od. However, although two direc
tors of tho Bulletin Publishing Co.
had a voico in tho decision, the
Bulletin coucorn was rofused tho
contract. That was "favoritism" of
a kiud tho Advertiser would scarce
ly relish from its friends.
It is not worth while saying any
thing on tho Advertiser's renewal of
bounce on tho circulation quostion.
In that respect tho Bulletin contin
ues to load all would-be rivals, all
their slanders to tho contrary not
withstanding. Businosnien and of
ficers of corporations havo in some
cases bocomo acquainted with its
superior merits as an advertising
medium by oxporionce. Those bus
iness houses that six or seven months
ago joined a spiteful boycott against
tho Bulletin havo boon remarkable
sinco chiefly by tho prevailing dull
ness in thoir stores. An onslaught
on our circulation made by a combi
nation, on April 1 was barely notic
ed for just three days, and on
tho fourth tho pressman had to add
to tho former quota of paper
for tlio press. With, latterly,
two opposition papers in the
evening field, the Bulletin has
not suifored the slightest decline
in its patronage. Its circulation in
the country districts of the group
has materially increased this year,
tho daily and weekly editions com
bined having a larger circulation in
the group than any rival combina
tion. Our press is visible from the
stroot aud accessible to all business
men at the hour of publication.
Anybody who is interested has full
liberty to inspect the whole process
of circulation. The Advertiser
writer is warned against any further
use of the term "bankrupt" in refer
ence to this concern. He has used
it once in his San Francisco corres
pondence, where it has failed utterly
in its malicious intent. Any repeti
tion of the libel will bring a personal
rod out of pickle which will bo more
regretted by its object than would
be a successful libel suit.
NAVAL COURT OF INttUIBY.
Tho British Minister Rosident and
Consul-Genoral Its President.
In reporting tho fact of an official
investigation into the stranding of
the steamship Miowera yesterday
tho tribunal should have been callou
a "Naval Court of Inquiry." It is
summoned by H. B. M.'s Minister
Resident, Major J. H. Wodehouse,
both in that capacity and as Consul
General, in the absence of auy offi
cer in command of a British naval
ship. The other members of tho
court are as previously stated Cap
tain Parry of tho bark County of
Merioneth, Captain H. W. Mist, R
N. (retired), and Captain G. D.
Freeth. The decision as to making
the court a closed or open ono is loft
to the President.
Hawaiian Provisional Government Stamps !
FULL BKTS HAWAIIAN 1'KOVJS
iunul Government Stamps (21 in set)
will be on sale at the 'Hawaiian News Co. '3
Store for this week only, nt $7.00 per set.
THEOSOPHY.
LADIKS AND GENTLEMEN INTE
rested in Thcoiophicul Studies, or
TlieobopUicnl Literature, are renuosted to
communicate on the subject with A, M. T.,
P. O. Box Hi', Honolulu. 8ii-lw
NOTICE.
TT'AWAIAHAO SEMINARY HAS K8-
l tablished a Domkhtio Dkpabtmknt
and is prepared to take orders for jellies,
bread and cakes. All orders for f rait cake
for Thanksgiving ttnd Christmas should be
sent at once. . 829 liu
Notice to Tenants!
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL
porpons living as tenants on lands be
longing to the Estate of the late King Kala
kaua, as well as on lands belonging to the
undersigned and those of David Kawana
nakoa and J. Kalanianaole, fur which ar
rangements have been made between thorn
and Mr. J. Puakaula, that payments of
rent must hereafter be made to me person
ally. When making payment it is re
quested that tenants bring copies of their
leases und the last receipt received by
them. It is also the wish of the under
signed to meet and confer with tenants on
the llrst day of every month for six months,
beginning October 10, 180'i, and ending
April 1(1. 181)1.
AT Otlice at Honuakaha.
KAPIOLANI.
Honolulu, Oct. 10, 18'J3. 850-1 m
To Lot or Iioase.
TO LET
ONE OF THREE NEW
Cottages on corner of
Fort and Tichool Streets,
Amilv on the tiremiscs. or
at Frank Brown's store, Merchant Street.
8 10-2 w
TO LET
NEW HOUSE OF FIVE
rooms, on Magazine
street, with Bathroom, pat
ent Y. 0.. etc. Commands
ono of the finest views in Honolulu. Appl
to (177-tf) J. M. VIVAS.
FOB, BALE
rpHK KE81DKN0B AND
A Lot situated on WIN
dor's Avenue, below Luna-
111,. If....... U.tll ..t. MujI 1,1.
the undersigned. Is for sale on advantage
ous terms. Apply to
JOHN FKUNANDE'Z,
82l-2ni At W. H. J.uuo, Merchant St.
Jtr":i"u'iiii
(itrjXuZ.
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Hawaiian Mmo Co., LI
Saturday, Oct. 14, 1898.
There has been an air of
business along the water front
during the past week that has
permeated a good many of the
stores of Honolulu, principally
ours. The indications are
strongly in favor of increased
trade during the next six
months and we are taking time
by the fore lock and preparing
ourselves for what we think,
will be an era of good times.
Honolulu and the Islands gen
erally have passed through a
period of depression that will
be long remembered ; the
people of the United States
are suffering from a more ag
gravated form of the disease
and the people there look for
relief through legislation while
it has come to us through nat
ural, at the same time, unex
plained course it just came.
The prospect of a higher price
for sugar in the near future
has given the managers con
fidence and they are willing to
expend money for improve
ments and repairs, a fact which
would not have existed had the
outlook not been bright. For
years Hawaii has been depend
ent upon sugar to an extent
that when there was a good
year almost every inhabitant
shared in the prosperity and
when a poor season came
along they linked arms in ad
versity. To a certain extent
the same state of affairs exist
today, the sugar producer
looks with a bright eye and a
light heart to better times, and
he invests accordingly. The
laborer who has worked dur
ing the past season on the co
operative plan finds himself
better off than he expected by
several hundred dollars and he
yearns for an outlet for his
savings. Diversified industries
on Hawaii are practically in em
bryo ; that they will develope
and be numbered among the
resources of the country there
can be no doubt. When that
times comes, though sugar will
ever remain the leading pro
duct of the islands, coffee and
fruits will occupy such promi
nence that when there is an off
year in sugar, the loss to the
merchant will be made up irom
the money spent by the promo
tors of other industries.
Unless -all signs fail this
country will be connected with
the United States by a com
mercial treaty that will be as
great a boon to the fruit grow
er as was the reciprocity treaty
to the sugar planter. Land
that now lies idle will be plant
ed in fruits and canneries will
spring up like mushrooms.
The prohibitory duty on canned
goods entering the United
States from this port will be
wiped out and canned Hawaii
an fruits will be known through
out the world. The prospects
for Hawaii's advancement
among the world's commerce
are brighter now man tney
have been for years, and for
that reason we have added
thousands of dollars worth of
goods to our stock during the
last few days.
Notice the stacks of fine
grade "Aloha" and plain cocoa
mats in our show rooms. Our
London buyer hunted England
oyer for" the best products of
the manufacturers, and we
have never had mats of a better
quality of fibre or closer woven
backs than we offer today as a
result of his efforts in your and
our interests. The same may
be said of scissors, we've never
had a larger or more varied
stock of these goods than are
on our shelves today. We
prefer some lines of goods
made in the United States to
'those of England and scissors
is one of them. I he steel is
better and the workmanship
surpasses the English just as
a French kid Parisian-made
boot excels in beauty the pro
duct of the shoe factories in
Northampton. There's a knack
about the finishing, the polish
ing and the putting together
of American scissors that is
lacking in the British. We
have them for button holes,
ripping, cutting or for dress
making and tailors use. The
peculiarly., bent ones are for
doing delicate work on the
nails. They cut corners on
toe nails so that ingrowths are
entirely done away with.
It is a strange, but none the
less true fact, that another
branch of the cutlery trade is
monopolized by England for
the same reasons that America
controls the scissors branch.
Pocket cutlery from the fact
ory of Wostenholm is superior
to any made in the world. It s
difficult to find a person who
would accept a knife made by
any one else, even as a gift.
We have a show case and
several shelves filled with pock
et knives from this well known
factory. They're in pearl, and
tortoise shell handles with from
two to six blades, one diminu-'
tive specimen is suitable only
for ladies owing to the size ;
the quality is the best. Larger
knives with bone handles and
supplied with little tools for
use by campers are included
in the assortment.
Our notice about wire fence
last week brought us inquiries
from all over the group, and or
ders from several plantations.
We can meet the demand now
that the "Pfluger" is belching
thousands of coils of galvaniz
ed and black annealed wire
into our warehouses. The
locked fence is made with this
wire and the addition of spring
stays and washers which are
sold only by us. There is so
much saving in the cost of
erecting the fence and so much
life added to it that compari
sons with the old style fence
are odious. A manager on
Kauai who is using our new
fence puts his posts forty feet
apart and the stays at a dis
tance ot six teet. it you ve
been accustomed to building
fence and locating your posts
every five or six feet you will
have no difficulty in calculating
the saving by adopting our
new methods. Other people
find it more economical and
there's no reason why you
should not.
Washita oil stones, either
plain or in boxes, are new
arrivals with us, and we have
added also to our stock of in
sulated wire and tape for use
in putting in telephones or
electric bells. Electricity is
one of the branches in some of
the schools in the States, and
there are no doubt many lads
in town who have read up on
the matter and would have put
call bells and burglar alarms
in their parents homes but for
the expense. So far as our
charges for material go this
is an error. Two or three
dollars will pay for the material
necessary for either a call bell
or any alarm from the chicken"
house to your bed room.
The Keystone Beater has
driven every other kind of con
trivance for beating eggs out
of one-half the kitchens in Ho
nolulu and we have enough of
them left in stock to supply
the remaining half of the po
pulation. We have also among
our new goods several hun
dred gross of tacks of various
sizes put up in neat Japan
lacquered boxes which may be
utilized as receptacles for but
tons, hair pins, etc., after the
tacks are used. The price of
these tacks is about the same
as those put up in the conven
tional stiff paper. The quality
is in keeping with the boxes
containing them.
If one style churn is better
than another we have it. If
you want one that will make
butter in five minutes the Am
erican Wonder is the churn you
are looking for. If you want
one that will make just as good
butter, but will take a little
longer to do it we have it for
you. If you want a barrel
churn that will turn out the
golden hued necessity in we
don't know how many minutes,
it's yours for the asking. The
bill will go to you at the end
of the quarter. It doesn't
make any difference what kind
of a churn you want we can
supply you. We have the
wooden spoons for working
the butter after you are
through churning and the
moulds for putting it in shape
for jhe table.
Hawaiian Hardware Co., L'd
Opposite HpreokeU' lllouk,
am fort STitiauT.
TEMPLE OF FASH10
Corner IPort 3a Hotel Streets.
Grand Sale !
O
Embroideries, : Lace : Veilings,
Handkerchiefs for Ladies and Gentlemen.
A LARGE LINE OF
Ladies' Blouses and Waists, Kid Gloves
Will be offered nt a GREAT SACRIFICE in order
to make room for
ISO OASES
Xmas and Holiday
"Wliii-h have arrived by the "Transit.''
DO NOT M1SSTHIS CHANCE!
S. BHRL.IOH
Corner Fort and Hotel Sts.,
"La Constancia"
The Best Manila Cigar in the Market.
A FRESH CONSIGNMENT JUST TO HAND AND
FOR SALE IN
ILiOTS TO SUIT!
IN BOND OR DUTY PAID
B
HOLLISTER & CO
Druggists and Tobacconists,
6S3 "Efo-rt Street,
Neckwear !
Neck wear !
GRAND
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100 Doz. Four-in-Hands
"Wortli
100 Doz. Four-in-Hands
"Wortli.
How viimriw lion! lyear
H. S. TRE6L0AN h SON.
Grand Sale
IT-
Goods
Honolulu, H. I.
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Honolulu, HC. I.
Neckwear !
DISPLAY
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25c. Each
50 Oents.
35c' Each
7"5 Oerrts.
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